Winter Quotes

“Winter is Coming.”

“Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.”

“Winter's not gone yet, if the wild-geese fly that way.”

“O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”

“The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind.”

“On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence.”

“Do not want to go out in fridge-crossed-with-swimming-pool-like world.”

“Wikipedia: Winter”

“Every Fern is tucked and set,
  'Neath coverlet,
  Downy and soft and warm.”

“Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.”

“See, Winter comes, to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad, with all his rising train;
Vapors, and Clouds, and Storms.”

“There’s a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –”

“In winter I get up at night,
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.”

“What miracle of weird transforming
  Is this wild work of frost and light,
  This glimpse of glory infinite?”

“How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!”

“Winter is icummen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm,
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
   Sing: Goddamm.”

“In winter, when the dismal rain
  Came down in slanting lines,
And Wind, that grand old harper, smote
  His thunder-harp of pines.”

“But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews;
Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse;
Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay,
Time conquers all, and we must time obey.”

“   Clouded with snow
   The bleak winds blow,
And shrill on leafless bough
The robin with its burning breast
   Alone sings now.”

“’Tis a dull sight
   To see the year dying,
When winter winds
   Set the yellow wood sighing:
      Sighing, O sighing!”